Mt. Hermon Way. Do fences make good neighbors? It’s temporary by Portajohn company. But where’s the toilet seat? Blogfinger photo © 12/1/17
The Warrington fire site. Anyone know wassup with this property.? Could it be that the criminal fire investigation is still active? Note the protective fence. It wasn’t there before the fire. Blogfinger photo. ©12/1/17
In July 2017, Kevin Chambers commented on Blogfinger: ” The most important question right now for the OGHOA and residents of OG, is why hasn’t the lot of the Warrington been cleared like the other lots. Is this another scam by Neptune to claim that there is enough of the building left to rebuilt it? The OGHOA should demand that this lot be cleared now.”
That horrid fire occurred on March 3, 2017.
Here is a link to the place before the fire. It’s ironic that the site now has a good fence around it. I believe that the Neptune township Committee passed an ordinance about such protective fences after the Warrington fire.
Warrington site before the fire: pre-fence.
This delay must be terribly hard on the residents who can’t rebuild yet. Let’s watch the situation so that no sneaky zoning decisions occur to allow for condominiums there.
And, by the way, there are 20 condominiums being readied in this same neighborhood, at the foot of the bridge to A. Park on the OG side. We wonder what the neighbors over there by Founders Park think about their parking situation. Another violation of RSIS parking rules. Some of those residents are lucky enough to have a driveway.
OG at the foot of the Founders’ Park bridge to sin city. 20 condos will be here. Where will they park? Blogfinger photo. 12/1/17
Founders’ Park 12/1/17: walking from OG to AP. It’s Friday, late afternoon. Where did they park? What? A Grover with pink hair? C’mon! Blogfinger action photo ©
DAVID CHRISTMAS AND BERNADETTE PETERS. From the show Dames At Sea. In the summer at the Jersey Shore we have plenty of dames at sea:
The owner of the yellow building by the bridge recently asked me, upon a random conversation, if I wanted to buy a unit. $160,000 for a studio unit, apparently.
Editor’s Note: If this is true and not some idle chatter, it means that the owner believes that he will get permission or already has permission to turn that property into condominiums. Supposedly the owner had permission in the past, but that was all negated after the place went into foreclosure. So it’s not clear how this property can be used for condos
Regarding the yellow building, we have spoken to another source who tells us that the property had received condominium approval in the past, but because of a foreclosure issue, that approval was lost and that the property has been used for rentals.
We don’t know the procedure for the owner to restore the condo approvals at this time. So this matter sounds complicated.——PG @Blogfinger
Thanks Kevin. When some of us (including Kevin and Jack Bredin) Grovers went before the State Site Improvement Advisory Board in Trenton regarding Neptune’s application for an exemption to parking laws, I asked them on the record why the State does not enforce its land use laws.
The Chairman said that his board is advisory only and doesn’t get into enforcement. He said that we could go before some other agency for that, but he didn’t say which one.
The Neptune application was withdrawn at the last minute. A member of the Board told us that they believed that Neptune withdrew after hearing that OG citizens would be present. The reason offered by Neptune was that their lawyer couldn’t make the meeting.
Here is a link about that meeting. Click on it to read but also to see Bob Bowné’s photograph that we posted with it. —-Paul Goldfinger,MD Editor@Blogfinger
https://blogfinger.net/2016/02/24/what-really-happened-at-the-state-site-improvement-advisory-board-siab-in-december/
In order for a building to be converted into condos it first must go before the Board of Adjustment for the right to convert. All lots in OG are held to a single family use by law because they are non-conforming under-sized lots.
This yellow building sits on three separate leased OGCMA lots. Each of those lots are only permitted a single family use. The Township has no authority to enter into a private leasehold between the OGCMA and it leaseholder. Therefore the OGCMA’s three lots can only permit three units.
This is an ongoing problem with Neptune’s refusing to follow the laws of NJ.
To convert to condos, the building must meet the requirements (RSIS) that NJ has mandated for parking. Again,this is where Neptune continues to violate law at its boards and continues to be in contempt of court through its zoning for OG.